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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … immigration can be identified. When we are able to implement a credible research design with statistical power, we find no …
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An important question for firms and policy makers is whether the recruitment of foreign workers can boost innovation. Migration studies have demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the regional level, but the impacts at firm level are less...
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study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …
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natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …
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proxy for knowledge flows and regressed on immigration and other control variables; the effect of immigration on patent … citations is found to be positive and statistically significant. Additionally, the coefficient on immigration is found to be …
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
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We propose a theory of free movement of goods and labor between two economies in the presence of moral hazard. Each country produces two final goods where the productive efforts of workers cannot be perfectly observed, or verified only in the complex industry. We show that national institutional...
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This paper investigates how immigration can affect the labor market outcomes of native workers when their wages are … that the monthly wage of native workers covered by fixed-term contracts decreases in response to immigration, while …
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the education distribution between immigrants and the native born. Using data for New Zealand, which has an immigration …
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